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Just before her death, a mother who drowned herself and her children used her BlackBerry to update her Facebook status. It read: “I'm sorry everyone forgive me please for what I'm gonna do…This is it!!!" Less than half an hour later, Lashanda Armstrong drove off a pier into the Hudson River, reports Adrian Chen for Gawker. "As with so many tragedies these days, the banality of Armstrong's farewell status update makes her choice that much more incomprehensible," writes Chen.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Armstrong's family had noticed signs of paranoia lately; she reportedly believed she was being watched, and claimed pages had gone missing from her diary. Click for more on the tragic case.

Media reported she thought her boyfriend was cheating on her. What is wrong with these women that the actions always involve a boyfriend. Can't they just be alone for a while and raise their kids. Seems like the boyfriend was more important than her kids. I'd like to hear from him, he is daddy to three of the children.

YouLikeDont

Apr 16, 2011 4:06 AM CDT

She was a psycho, like most conservatives. That's it.

stacysaw

Apr 15, 2011 3:38 PM CDT

there will now be "experts" and academics coming out of the woodwork to discuss "the level at which social media is now ingrained into our consciousness." even in her craziest, sickest, most out of control moment in life she stopped to go "oh wait, i need to change my status from Single to Dead." ah, what zuckerberg hath wrought.